Appearing at the Russian national senior test skates event in Chelyabinsk – which provides skaters the chance to showcase their routines ahead of the new season – Trusova blew away fans and media with an incredible free skate. The 17-year-old landed five quads in her routine – a feat which …
Read More »Alt-right figure Richard Spencer becomes broke and isolated by surrounding community – media
While Spencer was once recognized as one of the most influential neo-Nazis in the country, he now finds himself broke and isolated in the small town of Whitefish, Montana, according to a Sunday report from the New York Times. Spencer, once a vocal supporter of Trump who last year switched …
Read More »Russian opposition figure Navalny was sent to prison for breaking law & NOT for his political activities, Putin insists
The Russian president and the German chancellor were speaking to reporters during Merkel’s presumably final state visit to Moscow. She is due to stand down next month, prior to the country’s elections. Putin was responding to a question from a German journalist who asked about Navalny’s imprisonment. “As for the …
Read More »Forged gospels: No historical figure has been as manipulated, distorted, and used for nefarious ends as egregiously as Jesus
Jesus Christ has been trotted out over the past two millennia to justify a litany of evils, including the Crusades, the Inquisition, the European conquest and genocide of the native peoples of the Americas, Puritan witch trials and the burning of heretics, slavery, the subjugation of women, the persecution of …
Read More »Top Belarusian opposition figure Babariko, once tipped as successor to Lukashenko, handed 14 years in prison over fraud claims
His supporters believe the charges, launched after he attempted to run against incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko in the 2020 contest, are politically motivated. On Tuesday, state news agency BelTA reported that a court in Minsk had announced the verdict against the former chairman of Belgazprombank, a financial institution owned by …
Read More »Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s organisation branded ‘extremist’ by Moscow Court – allies now face election ban
Alongside the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), his national network of political offices and his Citizens’ Rights Protection Foundation were also branded as extremist. The decision comes six weeks after the same body approved preliminary restrictions against the activist’s organization, pending today’s result. These limits included a ban on posting materials online, …
Read More »‘A real boss woman’: Russian figure skating queen Elizaveta Tuktamysheva glows in glamorous dress after winning superwoman award
A week after leaving many of her legion of admirers in tears by scooping silver at the Figure Skating World Championships, ice extraordinaire Tuktamysheva had the altogether more straightforward task of attending a party to pick up her gong as one of GQ’s Super Women. The men’s quarterly declared Tuktamysheva the …
Read More »Jailed Russian opposition figure Navalny announces he will go on hunger strike, demands medication & doctor of his own choosing
The activist is serving time in jail after being found guilty earlier this year of breaking the conditions of a suspended sentence handed to him in 2014, when he was found guilty of embezzling 30 million rubles ($400,000) from two companies, including the French cosmetics brand Yves Rocher. Last week, …
Read More »As Germans flirt with idea of first Green Chancellor, a key opposition figure warns of the party’s ‘cultural Marxist’ agenda
Spring has arrived with a burst of new growth for the German Greens, giving rise to the biggest potential upset in Germany’s politics since the war – the election of the nation’s first Green Chancellor. One poll has the ruling Christian Democrats and Christian Socialist alliance just two points ahead …
Read More »‘We have lost the streets,’ Belarusian opposition figure Tikhanovskaya says, predicting more protests in spring
“I must admit that we have lost the streets,” Tikhanovskaya, who currently resides in Lithuania, told Swiss magazine Le Temps on Friday. “We don’t have the means to combat the regime’s violence against the protesters. They have the weapons, they have the force, so yes, for the moment, it seems …
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